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The Times report on Friday afternoon is just the latest bombshell story over the past week and adds to mounting headaches for the White House just as Trump has departed for his first foreign trip as president. Among Trump's senior White House advisers are several former campaign officials, including his son-in-law Jared Kushner, Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller and Kellyanne Conway.

USA defense officials have told NBC News that North Korea's missile launch last Sunday was a success. Japan has strongly protested to North Korea about the ballistic missile launch it conducted on Sunday as Tokyo can not tolerate its repeated acts of provocation, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference.

But on Sunday, standing before dozens of regional leaders, he said Islam was "one of the world's great faiths". "Every time a terrorist murders an innocent person, and falsely invokes the name of God, it should be an insult to every person of faith", Trump will say.

Other than the prospects of sale of $110 billion American-made arms to Saudi Arabia, which is being called the biggest such deal in U.S. history, he said, Trump administration's major interest in Middle East is the security of Israel. But since the prime minister is on a three-day visit, there are slight chances that he might be able to squeeze in an audience with Trump, who is on a two-day visit, with one already gone by.

North Korea on Monday boasted that it successfully launched a new type of "medium long-range" ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead, an escalation of its nuclear program that the U.N. Earlier UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned North Korea over its latest ballistic missile launch and called on Pyongyang to return to denuclearization.

Manning's leak also led to " Cablegate ", in which 251,287 diplomatic cables set by the U.S. State Department were published. Download our Expert Edition e-book, Cyber: Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation. Soon after Saeed's release and return to the US, he was accused of abusing his wife, Naghmeh Abedini, for years, which Saeed denied, reported The Washington Post in February 2016.